William Shakespeare (1564–1616) is the most famous playwright in history, though ironically, we know very little about his life and perhaps even less about what he really looked like.

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Starting in November, visitors to the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, ...

Contemporary paintings celebrate the brave women who fought fiercely alongside the men in the Haitian revolution of the 18th Century ... How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are ...

Contrary to what you might expect if you’ve come across tradwife TikTok, Christianity was once very queer. In fact, non-heterosexual men fundamentally influenced public religious life in the medieval ...

One of the most famous volcanos, Italy’s Vesuvius, is the inspiration for a stunningly displayed new exhibition at the ...

Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune, was known as America's wealthiest woman when she purchased ...

The residence of Ottoman sultans for 400 years, Topkapi Palace has everything from a sumptuous harem and jewelled robes to ...

A former chapel dating back to the 18th Century where the tomb of a famous Baptist preacher and ... which managed artists’ spaces, undertook fundraising and organised events, he said in the ...

Director José Lourenço on his new film, Young Werther, premiering this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The pirate Anne Bonny terrorised the Caribbean in the 18th Century. Her extraordinary life inspired many legends and myths. Video by Anna Pazos and Summer Eldemire Two voice-over artists were ...

Miuccia Prada, wearing clips from the store, and Raf Simons greet the crowds after the Prada collection show at the Milan Fashion Week in February 2024.